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mines freely in apple-trees, and Cemiostoma scitella is also at times 

 pretty abundant. 



In the genus Nepticula two of the hawthorn-feeding species Oxy- 

 canthella and Pygmoeella feed also on apple, and a hawthorn larva, 

 which is still undetermined, has likewise been found in apple leaves. 

 But the apple produces, in addition, species of its own : there is the 

 yellow larva of Malella, making long wavy galleries, and there is a 

 yellow larva which makes blotches, and from which I am now half 

 inclined to suspect we shall eventually rear Trifurcula pulverosella. 

 Then, among Frey's new species, is one apple-feeder, Desperatella, of 

 which the green larva makes closely-contorted galleries, often occurring 

 in such numbers that the leaves appear entirely yellow ; it occurs in 

 October only on young bushes : another recently new species is 

 Minusculella, of which the green larva mines, in August, the leaves of 

 pear-trees (both wild and cultivated) ; the mine much resembles that 

 of Ignobilella, the excrement, at first linear, being entirely black ; the 

 colour of the larva readily distinguishes it. The two last-named 

 species have not yet been found here. 



H. T. Stainton. 



Moimtsfield, Lewisham, 

 August, 1856. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 



July 7, 1856. — Special General Meeting. — W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. 



The meeting was made special pursuant to notice for the election of a Secretary 

 and one member of Council, in consequence of the resignations of Messrs. Douglas 

 and Pascoe. 



Mr. E. W. Janson was elected to both offices. 



Dr. J. E. Gray moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Douglas, the retiring Secretary, 

 whose able discharge of the duties, during the seven years he had filled the office, he 

 was sure every one would acknowledge. 



The motion was seconded by Mr. Westwood, and carried unanimously. 



Ordinary General Meeting. — The minutes of the last meeting having been read 

 and confirmed, 



Mr. Douglas feared he was rather out of order in rising at that time to address the 

 meeting; but the cause of his doing so was not an ordinary one. On the occasion of 

 the Society's excursion to Reigate, on the 21st ult., the members had been most hos- 

 pitably entertained by the President at the 'Swan' hotel. He much regretted that 



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